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By Artspace Editors. The Piss paintings were made by urinating and pouring or dripping urine onto primed canvases; the Oxidation paintings were made by urinating and pouring or dripping urine onto canvases prepared with either copper or gold-colored paint; the Cum paintings were made with semen ejaculated, poured, or dripped onto primed canvases. Andy Warhol produced these paintings during the second half of and Chronologically, they directly follow and partially overlap with the Torso and Sex Parts paintings of late through early For a decade, beginning in late , when he adopted the photo-silkscreen technique, Warhol had sourced his work almost exclusively from found photographic images, with the exception of the photobooth portraits.

How Experimental Were the Andy Warhol Piss Paintings Actually?

Rummaging through the internet on the topic of Andy Warhol piss paintings two points immediately jump out — the paintings are either praised as a novel step in artistic experimentation, or considered among the worst of his late works. Their value, however, does not seem to be affected by such contradictory opinions. Slowly reaching the end of his career and life, Warhol suddenly decided to turn to something that he has been avoiding thus far, and to give it a personal and a slightly ironic twist — the abstraction. Clearly polarized American art scene of the time between figuration based in celebrity and popular images, and abstraction that served its function in Cold War cultural bickering, was hardly prepared for the emergence of the piss punch delivered by Warhol and his studio minions. Aesthetic form achieved through the use of bodily fluids, and not any fluid but the one considered a waste, complicates their interpretation, and positions oxidation paintings between the discourses dealing with social divisions, artistic experimentation with body, abstract art, and finally eroticism. Andy Warhol worked on his Oxidation series in and

Andy Warhol Made Abstract Art? A Look at His "Piss, Oxidation, and Cum" Paintings

Warhol's Oxidation Paintings, In December Andy Warhol began to make a series of elegant, abstract paintings. These iridescent canvases, made up of coppery yellows, oranges and verdant green strokes, pools and drips, offered Warhol's viewer a sensuous and very physical enjoyment of paint, quite at odds with the crisper images one found in his Pop vocabulary.

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Andy Warhol's Piss and Sex Parts paintings and male nude drawings from the s to the late s. This exhibition will address this omission with a group of works that include Warhol's rarely exhibited erotic male nude drawings from the s, Torso and Sex Part paintings and drawings , and the conceptual alchemy of the abstract Oxidation and Piss paintings series Many of the works in the exhibition are on view for the first time. A fully illustrated catalogue, including an essay by Bruce Hainley, Contributing Editor of Artforum Magazine, will accompany the exhibition. Press release PDF.